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Monday, October 24, 2011

Foxes afoot! My Spoonflower fabric

Rewinding a bit to New Year's Eve 2010, my wife and I made a list of goals that we had for 2011. In retrospect it was a pretty ambitious list (though I did recently complete a Warrior Dash. Check that one off the list!) Another goal was to take some of the designs that I worked on in Heather Ross' class and actually get them printed on some fabric.

Ta-da!

Thanks to the magic of Spoonflower, I was quickly and easily able to upload my design files, make a few choices about pattern repeats, size & scale, and textile and -- voila! -- I had my very own fabric in my hands within a few short days. (It probably helps that Spoonflower is literally just down the street!) It was so quick and easy to do, in fact, that I wondered why I was so intimidated to try it out in the first place.

To start with, I just got a small cut of each of the three different fox designs that I showed you yesterday:

I'm not quite sure what I am going to do with them yet. I am sure they will eventually make their way into some of my patchwork projects but, for now, I'm happy just to hold them in my hands and feel satisfied seeing something that I created come to life in such a special way.

My boyfriend wants a quilt. But not just a quilt, a quilt with foxes. that also looks manly. haha! Looks like your fabric would fit the bill, its really great, I am glad I stopped by your little blog :)